Don’t Be Like Us

Rep. Zach Wamp issues a warning to Rep. Mumpower and his associates as they prepare to take over the General Assembly: “One of my recommendations to the party here is to stick to reforms, accountability, transparency, good government and responsibility,” he said. “You’ve got the burden of following through. We were on a mission in trying to bring change and reform. We lost our way. So the lesson of what happened in Washington is very instructive.”  Read More →

Calling Barack Obama The First Black President May Be Racist

Marie Arana explains: It’s as if we have one foot in the future and another still mired in the Old South. We are racially sophisticated enough to elect a non-white president, and we are so racially backward that we insist on calling him black. Progress has outpaced vocabulary. To me, as to increasing numbers of mixed-race people, Barack Obama is not our first black president. He is our first biracial, bicultural president. He is more than the personification of African American achievement. He is a bridge between races,... [Read the full story]

Defending Ideology

In the wake of President George W. Bush: But what’s more striking still is the elevation of managerial competence to the highest possible qualification for political office. Obviously, after eight years of nepotistic croynism, competence does look like a breath of fresh air. And I can understand, as well, the automatic suspicion of “ideology” (a word that has a very precise meaning in much political theory, thus making it a bit difficult for me to use it the way it is used in ordinary political commentary….but... [Read the full story]

Do You Ever Wonder If Western Culture Is Dying?

Do you ever get the feeling maybe it deserves to? MORE: Tennessee Guerilla Women Matthew Hurtt (II) Article 19 Newscoma  Read More →

Amazing Race 13: No money, no passport, no luck

  This week on the Amazing Race, four teams will be competing to win a place in the final three.  Although Andrew and Dan were saved from elimination, they will have an additional speed bump to complete.  Will they be able to overcome the odds? Or perhaps another team’s misfortune will be their saving grace… The teams must travel to a submarine in order to find their first clue.  Dallas and Toni are the first to depart, but they have a hard time finding a taxi driver who knows where to go.  Ken and Tina... [Read the full story]

Unite The Right

An argument in favor of the continuation of fusionism: Coexisting is not the same as embracing. Social Conservatives can work with Libertarians without embracing the legalization of all drugs and eradication of all borders. Libertarians can reciprocate without “walking an aisle” or surrendering any presumed intellectual superiority. This strengthens us all at little cost. Intentionally devouring one another, on the other hand, not only thins the ranks physically, it depletes stores of philosophical and principle based... [Read the full story]

Extreme Makeover Home Edition: Nickless’ New Beginning!

This week the Design Team is traveling to Holt, Michigan. Ty introduces the designers to the Nickless family, which consists of mom, Arlene, and three boys 11 and under. The father, Tim, was a critical care nurse who contracted hepatitis C and passed away. Ty explains that Arlene is now struggling to raise the boys on her own, and the house they live in is deteriorating - the boys even have to share the one warm room in the house! Notably, there is also a playhouse in the yard that the father never got the chance to complete.... [Read the full story]

Royal Bank of Scotland offers respite on mortgage arrears

The Royal Bank of Scotland is first to soften relationship between lenders and borrowers in wake of banking crisis Read More →

Noreena Hertz: Unhealthy incomes

Noreena Hertz: Astonishment at a nurse being paid more than £100,000 points up an outdated idea of value Read More →

Creditors meet to learn cost of Kaupthing’s loans

Yachts and private jets are exactly what well-heeled customers of the Café Royal would be expected to own. Indeed, these playthings of the rich and famous will be the subject of discussion in the venue's plush surroundings today. But the talk will not be so much about exotic holidays on fabulous yachts reached by private airplanes but about the loans handed out by a collapsed Icelandic bank to buy them.Creditors are scheduled to attend a meeting at the Piccadilly venue to learn about their chances of recouping losses... [Read the full story]

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